Audio podcast pause/resume

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Audio podcast pause/resume

Hi,

For some time now I have been experiencing the following problem:

When listening to a long audio podcast, if I pause playback when I am some way through (say 1/2 hour or more), it stops fine but when I go to resume it sits there for a long time (30-60+ seconds) before actually resuming playback.

Video podcasts, movies etc work fine. All aspects of syncing/streaming work fine (except that iTunes doesn't auto sync when new podcasts arrive grrr).

I have tried a factory reset several times, and tried playing back synced as well as streamed podcasts and get the same result.

If anyone has any ideas I would be interested to hear. Also, if anyone could confirm whether this behaviour is 'normal' or not I would be grateful.

Posted on Dec 21, 2009 5:28 PM

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Dec 22, 2009 4:17 AM in response to Critter17

Welcome to the  Discussion Forums.

If content is halfway through being viewed and remember position is selected in itunes the tv may take a little longer when resuming rather than starting new content, however I wouldn't say the times you are experiencing are typical (they aren't for me anyway), are you sure it takes this long or does it just perhaps seem like it.

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Dec 22, 2009 5:39 PM in response to Winston Churchill

Thank you for your response Winston.

To answer your question I did another factory reset, update and re-sync followed by some more testing.

Today I got these results with an almost-2 hour podcast synced to the device:
15min: 5 seconds
30min: 11 seconds
60min: 22 seconds
90min: 32 seconds
115min: 41 seconds

So, it looks like I overstated the delay but these are still significant, especially when you are trying to skip forward or find a place in the podcast.

As it happens, this time when I changed the device into streaming mode there were no delays. This isn't very convenient as the computer needs to be running the whole time but it's better than the alternative.

I'd still like to use the device synced so if anyone has further ideas or comments they would be appreciated.

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Dec 24, 2009 12:44 PM in response to Critter17

i have exactly the same issue. on any firmware greater than 2.3 seek time in podcasts, particularly mp3 files is terrible. i see performance like yours. aac files seem to be less effected. i have reverted back to 2.3 and then performance is fine. i assume that apple changed one of the quicktime components for some reason or there is a strange regression error.

please fix this apple. think of it as a christmas present to us all

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Critter17 Author

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Dec 24, 2009 5:47 PM in response to ben_jennings

Thanks for your post Ben.
When you revert back to 2.3, do you know if there is a way to stop it from bugging you to update?

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Dec 25, 2009 7:41 PM in response to Critter17

I'm having this same problem, but with iTunes. Long podcasts take ages to resume playback. I'm not sure if there's a thread on this problem in the iTunes forum.

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Alley_Cat

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Dec 26, 2009 1:07 AM in response to Critter17

Addict112 wrote:
Thanks for your post Ben.
When you revert back to 2.3, do you know if there is a way to stop it from bugging you to update?

There is no official way to do this via menus and settings.

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Alley_Cat

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Dec 26, 2009 1:08 AM in response to Jamie Leinhardt

Are these podcasts definitely synced and not streaming live from a running iTunes library?

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Critter17 Author

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Dec 26, 2009 1:17 AM in response to Alley_Cat

Alley_Cat - thanks for the information about the update reminder.

As for synced vs streamed - the problem definitely occurs for me with synced podcasts. Previously, I have experienced the delay problem when streaming as well, but right now streaming seems to be working fine so that's how I'm using it. I'd prefer to sync but unless there is a solution it won't be possible for me.

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Alley_Cat

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Dec 26, 2009 1:19 AM in response to Critter17

You just have to be acreful that little hands don't inadvertently trigger an update via the remote as you can only roll back to the shipping version of the software.

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Jan 4, 2010 9:26 PM in response to Alley_Cat

Well I've been using streaming mode for a while but just figured out today that in this mode audio podcasts don't pick up from where you left off, regardless of whether you listened to them on the ATV, on iTunes or on an iPod.

So it looks like I have to put up with one major deficiency or another which is very disappointing.

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